Nathaniel HOVEY [Parents] 1-994 was born 2 on 20 Mar 1657 in Hampton, Windham, Connecticut, United States. He died on 24 Mar 1692 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Nathaniel married (MRIN:931) Mary-2295 about 1690 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.

Family records of Leander Harris
From the Autobiography of Dennison L. Harris: "Verbal Statement of Bp. Dennison L. Harris of Monroe, Sevier Co., Utah, made by him to President Joseph F. Smith in the presence of Elder Franklin Spencer, at the house of Bp. Dorius of Ephraim, Sanpete Co., Utah, on Sunday Afternoon, May 15th, 1881. Reported by George F. Gibbs." Author and another young man invited to meeting where plots against Joseph Smith were being hatched, Nauvoo, spring 1844. Attended series of meetings. Lives placed in danger because they refused to take oath not to reveal what they heard. Reaction of Joseph Smith to their adventure. Circumstances of the Apostles receiving endowments from Joseph Smith in Nauvoo.
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Spy for Israel to reveal William Law plot

FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 [MBCR 1:80].
EDUCATION: He made his mark to his will.
ESTATE: Granted two acres of planting ground at Charlestown, 10 January 1634/5 [ChTR 12]. Had hay ground allotment of one in 1635, which was increased to two [ChTR 19, 20]. Had five acres of land Mystic Side, 1637 [ChTR 27]. Had 2½ cow commons, 1637 [ChTR]. In Mystic Side allotments of 23 April 1638 received five shares as his first proprotion [ChTR 36 (second and third proportions illegible)]. In cow commons on stinted common had 2½, 30 December 1638 [ChTR 42].

In the 1638 Charlestown Book of Possessions James Pemberton held eight parcels: half a rood of ground; two acres arable land in East Field; two acres arable land in Line Field; two and a half cow commons; five acres woodland in Mystic Field; one acre meadow in Mystic Field; five acres woodland in Mystic Field; and thirty-two acres of land in Water Field [ChBOP 14].

On 12 May 1648 James Pemberton acknowledged that he had sold one stinted cow common to Robert Hale of Charlestown [ChBOP 104].

In his will, dated 23 March 1659/60 and proved 1 April 1662, "James Pemberton of Maldon ... being weak in body" bequeathed to "my son Edward Barlow all that my upland ground he now is resident upon containing four acres and to my daughter Mary his wife and to the heirs of their two bodies for ever"; to "my son Edward Barlow, his wife, my daughter, and their children aforesaid, my orchard plot and the fresh meadow thereunto adjoining containing one acre ... only one half part of the grass for hay for my wife during her life"; to "my daughter Sara £10"; "my dwelling house with all the land belonging to it being ten acres more or less, five acres of land in the great swamp, all my salt marsh ... with all other my estate whatsoever not before particularly disposed of I give one half part unto my son John ... the other half part I give unto my beloved wife Margit Pemberton during her life, and after her decease to my son John and his heirs"; "my wife and my son John executors"; "my friend Joseph Hills Sr." overseer [MPR Case #17117].

The inventory of the estate of James Pemberton was taken 5 February 1661[/2] and totalled £84 12s. including £72 in real estate: "one dwelling house," £12; "ten acres of upland, and five of swamp," £30; "four acres of upland more and one acre of orchard & meadow," £18; and "four acres of meadow more," £12 [MPR Case #17117].

BIRTH: By about 1608 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Malden 5 February 1661/2.
MARRIAGE: (1) By 1633 Alice _____; "Alice Pemberton" was admitted to Charlestown church 31 August 1633 [ChChR 8]; she died after 1642 and before 1653.
(2) By 1653 Margaret _____, named in his will. She deposed on 15 December 1662 aged about fifty years [Pope, citing Middlesex Files].

COMMENTS: James Pemberton was admitted as an inhabitant of Charlestown in December 1633, and was in the lists of inhabitants of 9 January 1633/4 and January 1635/6 [ChTR 9, 10, 15]. He signed the town agreement establishing the office of selectman, 10 February 1634/5 [ChTR 12].

There is no record of this James Pemberton in New England between his request for freemanship in September 1630 and his reappearance in Charlestown in 1633. This gap, and especially the fact that he was not made a freeman in May of 1631, suggests that he returned to England for some portion of these years. There is even the possibility that the 1630 man is not the same as the one who appeared in 1633 in Charlestown.

About 1640, James Pemberton, Prudence Wilkinson, and others petitioned that having been inhabitants of Charlestown and now planters on Mystick side, found that the town meeting had passed very prejudicial and unreasonable rules to the detriment of the planters and they sought redress from the court [Lechford 365].

Savage notes that this James Pemberton "perhaps removed to Hull for a short time, about 1647" [Savage 3:387]. Savage is off by a decade, and it is not certain that these records apply to James Pemberton of Charlestown. 12 March 1637/8: "James Pemberton is referred to the committee of the next Court about the ground which he had at Nantascot" [MBCR 1:226]. 2 May 1638: "There is ten acres of land granted to James Pemberton, part of it the land formerly planted by him, & the rest joining to it at Nantascot" [MBCR 1:229].

On 19 October 1652 the court judged that the island claimed by James Pemberton, and called by his name, did belong to him [MBCR 3:291].

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Cambridge church prior to 17 May 1637 implied by freemanship. In the list of Cambridge church members compiled in January 1658/9 are "John Gibson & Rebecca his wife both members in full communion. Their children: Rebeccah, now joined in full communion with the church at Watertowne, Mary, Martha, John, Samuel," the last four listed as "baptized in this church" [CaChR 14].
FREEMAN: 17 May 1637 [MBCR 1:373].
OFFICES: Cambridge fenceviewer, 9 March 1662/3, 26 March 1666 [CaTR 143, 161]. Field driver, 15 March 1676/7, 11 March 1677/8 [CaTR 233, 239].
EDUCATION: Signed his deeds.
ESTATE: On 4 August 1634, "John Gibson" was granted six acres in the West End in Cambridge [CaTR 9]. Received a proportional share of one in the undivided meadow, 20 August 1635 [CaTR 13]. In the 8 February 1635/6 list of "those men who have houses in the town at this present, " "John Gibson" is credited with one house in the West End [CaTR 19].

In the Cambridge land inventory on 10 October 1635, "John Gibson" held one parcel: "in West End one house with planting ground about six acres" [CaBOP 35]. In the 1639 land inventory, "John Gibson" held one parcel: "in the new lots next Manotomie three acres of planting ground," and had bought of Edward Elmer "in the West End three acres of land" [CaBOP 55, 62]. In the 6 September 1642 land inventory, "John Gibson" held two parcels: "in West End one dwelling house with nine acres land"; and "in the Fresh Pond Meadow five acres" [CaBOP 95].

By 1642, John Gibson had sold to Nathaniel Sparrowhawk five acres in the Fresh Pond Meadow [CaBOP 124].

In 1648, "Jno. Gibson" was granted sixty acres "on the rocks on the north side the river," and, by 9 October 1648, had sold this land to Thomas Danforth [CaBOP 135, 138]. In the Shawsheen grant of 4 June 1652, "John Gibson" received Lot #52, eighty acres [CaTR 98].

On 30 November 1668, "John Gibson Senior of Cambridge" deeded to "John Gibson Junior his son the westerly end of or part of his now dwelling house with the chimney thereto appertaining ..., also three acres of land being part of the lot adjoining thereto," provided the father and son work in equal partnership all the land of the father, "and at the decease of the said John Gibson Senior all the said lands with all the houses & buildings thereon to be & remain to the said John Gibson Junior," with further provisions for maintenance if the grantor's wife outlives him [MLR 3:330].

On 26 May 1679, "John Gibson Senior of Cambridge ..., yeoman," sold to "Edm[ond] Angier of the same place, woollendraper, ... one parcel of land" in Cambridge "on the south side of Charles River, & containeth by estimation three acres"; acknowledged by "Joanna my wife" [MLR 7:352]. On 15 April 1687, "John Gibson of Cambridge" sold to "Deacon Walter Hastin of the aforesaid town ..., tanner, ... a small parcel of land containing one acre & a half ... in Cambridge West Field in the Great Swamp" [MLR 10:68].

COMMENTS: On 8 May 1637, it was "agreed with John Gibson to keep 100 cows at our direction all this summer" [CaTR 28]. On 11 December 1648, it was "granted by the townsmen to John Gibson the use and profit of the weir and weir land for two years ensuing, upon condition, that he serve the town with fish, at ninepence per thousand, and if he afford help for loading them to be allowed ten pence per 1000" [CaTR 78].

The year of birth of son John would be about 1631 based on the age at death on his tombstone as published, but this must be incorrect. The list of church members of January 1658/9, when describing a family, enters the children in birth order, and for this family John is placed between Martha and Samuel, strongly suggesting that the age at death has been misread, and should be 38 rather than 48. This is consistent with his date of marriage.

In 1659 various members of the family of John Gibson accused Winifred and Mary Holman, wife and daughter of WILLIAM HOLMAN , of witchcraft, but there is no record of a trial resulting from these charges. Early in 1660, Winifred and Mary charged John Gibson Senior and his wife, Rebecca (Gibson) Stearns, and John Gibson Junior with defamation. Winifred was unsuccessful in her suits against the first three, but Mary Holman won her suit against John Gibson Junior. This defamation suit generated many documents, some of them long and detailed, which are very revealing about the characters involved and about daily life in Cambridge at the time [Parker-Ruggles 237-54; Witchhunting 134-46].

Sarah PEMBERTON [Parents]-1005 was born in BET 1638 AND 1647 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. She was christened 1 on 30 Dec 1638 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. She died on 10 Oct 1676. Sarah married 2, 3, 4 (MRIN:935) Samuel GIBSON-2296 on 30 Oct 1668 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

John PEMBERTON [Parents]-1006 was born in 1642 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. He was christened 1 on 24 Apr 1642 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. He died in 1691. John married 2 (MRIN:936) Deborah HILLS-2297 about 1668 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

Deborah HILLS-2297. Deborah married 1 (MRIN:936) John PEMBERTON-1006 about 1668 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.

Surname may be Blake

William FARWELL[scrapbook] 1-1390 was born in 1582 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He died on 5 Sep 1637 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He was buried 2 on 5 Sep 1637 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. William married (MRIN:937) William FARWELL Mrs-1391 about 1604 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.

William had a will 3 on 1 Sep 1637 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.

William FARWELL Mrs-1391 was born in 1585 in of Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. She died 1 before Jul 1617. William married (MRIN:937) William FARWELL-1390 about 1604 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.

Ann WELBY-1398 was born in 1600 in Whaplode, , Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. She was christened 1, 2 in 1600 in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom.

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Anthony WELBY-1399 was born in 1602 in Whaplode, , Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He was christened on 3 Dec 1602 in Whaplode, , Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He died in 1603. He was buried 1, 2 in 1603.

Elizabeth FARWELL [Parents]-1009 was born 1 on 27 May 1630 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. She was christened 2 on 27 May 1630 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. She died on 9 Nov 1670 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. Elizabeth married 3 (MRIN:939) Joseph WILBORE-2298 about 1651.

John FARWELL [Parents]-1011 was born 1 on 25 Oct 1635 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. He was christened 2 on 25 Oct 1635 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. He died 3 in 1686 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. John married 4 (MRIN:940) Sarah WHEELER-2299 on 4 Nov 1658 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Sarah WHEELER-2299 died 1 on 23 May 1662 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Sarah married 2 (MRIN:940) John FARWELL-1011 on 4 Nov 1658 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.